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Isabel James Lehto Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k8 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $378k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAINT PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $108,000 |
| BRIGADE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC | $60,000 |
| FAMILIES FIRST INC | $60,000 |
| SAINT MARY'S SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD MINISTRIES OF WILMINGTON INC | $50,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN THE STATE OF NC | $35,000 |
| LOWER CAPE FEAR HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC | $35,000 |
| EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF EAST CAROLINA | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS OF EASTERN NC | $25,000 |
| MINISTERING CIRCLE OF WILMINGTON NC | $25,000 |
| HOPE HARBOR HOME INC | $20,000 |
| HEIDIS HOPE FOR HOMELESS ANIMALS INC | $15,000 |
| PENDER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- GSGood Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $500k · revenue +87%
- SMSAINT MARYS SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $440k · revenue +55%
- BBBRIGADE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC8× · 2017–2025 · $410k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- BGBoys & Girls Club of Southeastern NCone grant, 2024 · $60k
- LCLower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCaregraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +27%
- LPLakeside Partners of Wilmington Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +209%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of Historic Wilmington Foundation is to protect and preserve the irreplaceable historic resources of Wilmington and the Lower Cape Fear Region.
To provide low-cost housing for those in need in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
The preservation of the heritage and history of Rockingham County, North Carolina
The organization provides elderly or disabled persons with housing facilities and services specially designed to meet their physical, social, and psychological needs, and to promote their health, security, happiness, and usefulness in…
Serenity House is a community organization that bridges the gap for hospice families by providing a three bed group home setting at no charge for short term end of life care by trained volunteers and nurses.
Safe Harbor provides a faith-based community for rebuilding, renewing, and recovery. We work together with volunteers and other nonprofit organizations to provide a wide range of services to those experiencing homelessness, single mothers,…
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
Pittsboro Christian Village is a caring and compassionate continuing care retirement community for the Lord's people during their senior years. We provide our resident's spiritual and physical well-being, guided by biblical principles to…
The Associations mission is to preserve and present the history of the Chicamacomico Life-Saving/Coast Guard Station and the history of the Life-Saving Service on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
Home for women and children who suffer from domestic violence.
The mission of Brunswick County Partnership for Housing is to provide services to individuals and families in Brunswick County who are homeless and advocate for the development of affordable housing.
Dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Harbor Home Inc and the most unlike its peers is Saint Marys School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARYS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BRIGADE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER CAPE FEAR HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds Ministering Circle of Wilmington NC ↗
- Who funds The National Society of the Colonial Dames in the State of North Carolina ↗
- Who funds THE OAKDALE CEMETERY COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Hope Harbor Home Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds PENDER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare ↗
- Who funds Lakeside Partners of Wilmington Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: North Carolina Community Foundation · Cape Fear Memorial Foundation · The Myrtle and Rt Sinclair Jr Charitable Foundation Inc · Dan Cameron Family Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Isabel James Lehto Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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